Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Troglodytidae > Cistothorus > Cistothorus palustris

Cistothorus palustris (Marsh Wren)

Synonyms: Telmatodytes palustris
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The marsh wren (Cistothorus palustris) is a small North American songbird of the wren family. It is sometimes called long-billed marsh wren to distinguish it from the sedge wren, also known as short-billed marsh wren.
View Wikipedia Record: Cistothorus palustris

Infraspecies

Cistothorus palustris aestuarinus
Cistothorus palustris browningi
Cistothorus palustris clarkae
Cistothorus palustris deserticola
Cistothorus palustris dissaeptus
Cistothorus palustris griseus
Cistothorus palustris iliacus
Cistothorus palustris laingi
Cistothorus palustris marianae
Cistothorus palustris paludicola
Cistothorus palustris palustris
Cistothorus palustris plesius
Cistothorus palustris pulverius
Cistothorus palustris tolucensis
Cistothorus palustris waynei

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
20
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.82583
EDGE Score: 2.05743
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  11 grams
Birth Weight [3]  1.3 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Freshwater marshes, Coastal saltmarshes
Wintering Geography [2]  Southern U.S./Mexico
Wintering Habitat [2]  Wetlands, Coastal saltmarshes
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  100 %
Forages - Understory [4]  100 %
Clutch Size [6]  5
Clutches / Year [1]  2
Fledging [1]  13 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  9,400,000
Incubation [5]  14 days
Mating System [3]  Polygyny
Migration [7]  Intracontinental

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

+ Click for partial list (100)Full list (150)

Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Agelaius phoeniceus (Red-winged Blackbird)[8]

Predators

Oryzomys palustris (marsh rice rat)[9]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ceratophyllus garei[10]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Audio

Play / PauseVolume
Provided by Birds Of A Feather on Myxer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 7Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Oryzomys palustris, James L. Wolfe, Mammalian Species No. 176, pp. 1-5 (1982)
♦ 10International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Audio software provided by SoundManager 2
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0